Lawyers representing Alcoholics Anonymous World Services Inc. are fighting a wrongful-death lawsuit filed against the organization by the parents of murder victim Karla Brada, claiming there is no basis for the lawsuit.

Sheriff's deputies responded to a series of domestic disturbance calls in the Santa Clarita Valley on Tuesday, including a report that a Canyon Country man was threatening to harm himself and others with a pellet gun inside his home, officials said.

Four burglars helped themselves to some iPads at the Stevenson Ranch Walmart on Tuesday, but they dropped the loot while fleeing after one was detained, a Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff's Station lieutenant said.

As senators negotiated judicial appointments Tuesday, Santa Clarita city officials continued efforts to change the mind of one man known to be standing in the way of legislation to ban a mine in Canyon Country.

Efforts to locate the relatives of a man believed homeless, whose body was recovered Friday morning in the Santa Clara River in Canyon Country, are proving difficult, a spokesman for the county coroner's department said.

Word that a 43-year-old Democratic senator from New Mexico, who was elected in 2012, is poised to oppose the last chance for a Cemex bill to pass Congress this session has set civic leaders on a mission to change his mind.

Santa Clarita Valley sheriff's detectives have called off the search for a man thought involved in Sunday's car-to-car shooting in Canyon Country and said Monday they are no longer looking for a suspect.

A Newhall homeowner Monday shot at a very large, roaming "Mastiff-type" dog after it reportedly attacked him, causing the unleashed animal to flee into the hills, animal control and law enforcement officials said.

More than 500 teen cyclists from Southern California tore up the dry, dusty hills around Castaic Lake Sunday as three times that number cheered, screamed and handed out water for their favorite competitor.

Sheriff's detectives detained a man for questioning Sunday in connection with a "car to car" shoot-out in Canyon Country between an off-duty Los Angeles Police Department officer and another man Sunday, according to officials with the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff's Station.

An adult and child were injured and airlifted to the hospital Sunday after the car in which they were traveling overturned on San Francisquito Canyon Road, a spokesman for the Los Angeles County Fire Department said.

Sheriff's detectives are looking for mail thieves who ransacked mailboxes on two Santa Clarita Valley streets recently - one in Stevenson Ranch, the other in Bridgeport - making off with the personal mail of residents there, a lead investigator said this week.

County prosecutors declined Thursday to prosecute a Valencia restaurant owner on charges of human trafficking, assault and mayhem due to a lack of evidence - despite a multi-agency task force investigation that resulted in the owner's arrest this week, a spokesman said.

A woman was allegedly choked and thrown to the ground on a Valencia street Thursday, leading to the arrest of a man suspected of assaulting her, a spokesman for the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff's Station said.